Education

Ph.D., Ohio State University

M.A., University of South Florida

B.S., Florida State University

Background and Research Focus

Susi Long is a Professor in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education at
the University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on humanizing, decolonizing, and culturally relevant equity pedagogies
in preservice teacher education and early childhood literacy education. Her five books written with teachers and university colleagues include Tensions and Triumphs in the Early Years of Teaching; Supporting Students in a Time
of Core Standards; Many Pathways to Literacy, Courageous Leadership in Early Childhood
Education; and “We’ve been doing it your way long enough”: Choosing the Culturally Relevant Classroom.
Susi teaches courses in literacy methods, culturally relevant pedagogies, linguistic pluralism,
language acquisition in diverse communities, and critical qualitative methodologies.

She was a classroom teacher in kindergarten through grade eight classrooms and started
her career in higher education as recipient of the National Council of Teachers of
English (NCTE) Promising Researcher Award. Since then she has served in a range of
leadership roles within NCTE: Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Research Foundation;
NCTE Executive Committee; Co-chair of the Elementary Section Steering Committee; Chair
of NCTE's U.S. Governmental Relations Committee; Mentor, Cultivating New Voices Among
Scholars of Color. In 2013, Susi received the NCTE Early Childhood Education Assembly’s
Early Literacy Educator of the Year award. She co-founded the Assembly’s Professional Dyads and Culturally Relevant Teaching project supporting teacher-teacher educator partners in generating anti-bias and
culturally relevant practices in early childhood. She is co-editor of the NCTE-Routledge
Research Series focused on issues of equity and critical race research. She has received
other teaching and research awards including the 2013 University of South Carolina
Mortar Board Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2019 UofSC Educational Foundation
Award for Research in Professional Sciences. From 2009-2013, she served as the Moore
Child Advocacy Distinguished Chair in the College of Education at the University of
South Carolina. Most recently, she was the recipient of a Fulbright Research Chair
in Education Award to conduct research at the University of Alberta, Canada during
the 2019-2020 academic year.

Selected Honors

2019 Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Education Awardee,, University of Alberta, Canada

2019 Educational Foundation Award for Research in Professional Sciences,, Office of the Provost, University of South Carolina

2018 Nominated,Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Award,, University of South Carolina

2017 Visiting Scholar and Keynote Presentation, Center for Urban Education, University of Pittsburgh, College of Education

2017 Visiting Scholar, University of London, Goldsmith’s College, Spring Seminar Series presentation: “We’ve been doing it your way long enough”: Anti-racist teaching through decolonized
curriculum

2016 - Present, Member, Standing Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, Nominated by Presidential Team, National Council of Teachers of English

2013 – 2019, Mentor, Cultivating New Voices of Scholars Among Color Program, National Council of Teachers of English

Long, S. with Hutchinson, W. & Neiderhiser, J. (2011). Supporting students in the time of Common Core Standards, 4K Through Grade 2. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Long, S., Abramson, A., Boone, A., Borchelt, C., Kalish, R., Miller, E., Parks, J., Tisdale,
C. (2006). Tensions and triumphs in the early years of teaching: Real world findings and advice
for supporting new teachers. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.